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6.1.0-rc1 New regression (not in 6.1.0-rc0): Freezes using UEFI firmware without acceleration

With Qemu 6.0.91 (6.1.0-rc1) on Windows freezes occur reproducable when using an UEFI firmware without acceleration.

Qemu freezes with "Guest has not initialized the display (yet)."

These freezes do not occur with

These freezes occur using

I was not able to reproduce these freezes with 6.0.91 (https://download.qemu.org/qemu-6.1.0-rc1.tar.xz) on Debian/Buster.

Command lines to reproduce

I created testcases using UEFI firmware provided by https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2014/download/qemu-xmas-uefi-zork.tar.xz as well as by Qemu Tarball/Distribution:

  1. Qemu provided firmware as pflash
# Msys2-compiled
qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=/mingw64/share/qemu/edk2-x86_64-code.fd,if=pflash,format=raw,readonly=on
# Qemu-Distribution
qemu-system-x86_64 -drive 'file=c:/Program Files/qemu/share/edk2-x86_64-code.fd,if=pflash,format=raw,readonly=on'
  1. QemuAdventcalendar provided firmware as pflash
qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=qemu-advent-calendar/2014/qemu-xmas-uefi-zork/OVMF-pure-efi.fd,if=pflash,format=raw,readonly=on
  1. QemuAdventcalendar provided firmware as bios
qemu-system-x86_64 -bios qemu-advent-calendar/2014/qemu-xmas-uefi-zork/OVMF-pure-efi.fd
Edited by Helge Konetzka
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